Thursday, Sept. 29

Please start your sketchbook for contemporary photography. Start researching ideas, concepts and photographers. Please make a list of three columns. One column - things you hate that make you made. Middle column - things that you are attracted to (aka colors, other artists, settings, objects, etc.) Far column - things that you love. See if there is a way to combine the ideas between them. Look at photographers that work in portraiture that you are attracted to. Print off these works and put them in you sketchbook. A good sketchbook is more of a scrapbook than anything. Lots of bits and pieces make a whole.

It doesn't have to be pretty...just functional. Here are some images of some friends books, former students and professionals.